The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-06

| he has on his back, and how much money he
has in his purse; but vast empire. God grant
that the light of that blessed world may Shine
! upon us in our last moment.
, The toughest time we had in crossing the
! ocean was at the mouth of Liverpool barhor.
We arrived ut nigltfall, and were Obliged to
lie there till the morning, waiting for the rising
| of the tide, before we could 60 up 10 the CITY.
/ tow the vessel pitched and writhed in tile
! wateri So sometimes the last illness of the
! Christian is q struggle. He is almost through
( the voyage. The waves of temptation toss
/ his soul, but he waits for the morning At
/ last the light dawns, and the tides of JOY rise
/ in his soul, and he sails up and casts anchor
/ within the veil
| is thy heart right? What question can COM
| pare with this in importance?
| 1t is a business question Do you not realize
! that you viii soon have to go out of that store
| that you will soon have to resign that partner
| ship, that soon among all the millions Of dol
lars worth Of goods that are sold in New York
you will not have the handling of a yard of
cloth, or Il pound of sugar, or a penny-worth of
anything; that soon If conAagaration should
start at Central park and sweep every
thing to the battery, it would not dis
turb you; that soon if every cashier should
abscOnd and every insurance company should
fail, II would not affect you? What are the
questions that stop this side the grave COM
pared with the questions that reach beyond it
Are you making losses that are to DO everlast-
ing? Arc You making purchases for eternity?
Are you jobbing for time when you might be
wholesaling for eternity? What question of
tho store is so broad at the base, and so alfitu-
dinous, and so overwhelming as the question:
us thy heart right?'
Or is it domestic question? 1t is some
thing about fether, OF mother. or companion,
or son, or daughter that YOU think is comDar-
able with this question in importance? Do
you not realize that by universal and inexor-
able law all these relations will be broken up?
Your father will be gone, your mother will be
gone your companion will be gone, your child
W wi N nd no,
supernal question will begin to harvest its
chief gains, or deplore its worst losses, roll up
into its mightiest magnitude, or sweep its vast
circles. What difference now does il make to
Napoleon liz. whether he triumphed
or surrendered at Sedan? whether
he lived at the Tuileries or at
Chiselhurst? whether he was emperor or
exile? They laid him out in his coffin in the
dress of field marshal. Did that give him
any better chance for the next world than If
he had been laid out in plain shroud? And
soon to US what will be the difference whether
in this world we rode or walked, were bowed
to or maltreated, were applauded or Kissed at
were welcomed in or kicked out, while laying
hold of every moment Of the great future, and
burning in all the splendor or grief, and over
arching and undergoing all time and all eter-
nifty, is the plain, simple, practical, thrilling
agonizing overwhelming question, is thy heart
right?" Have you within you a repenting
heart, an eXpectant heart? If not / must
write upon your soul what George Whit6tld
wrote upon the windowpane with his diamond
ring. He tarred in an elegant house over
night, but found that there was no God recog-
Dized i'll that house. Before he left his room
in the morning, with his ring he wrote upon
the windowpane, Zone thing thou lackest"
After the guest was gone, the housewife came
up and looked at the window, and saw the in
scription and called her husband and her chill
dren and God, through that ministry of the
window glass, brough them all to Jesus
Though you may today be surrounded by COM
forts and luxuries, and feel that you have
need OF nothing, if you are not the children
of God, with the signet ring of Christ's
Zone thing thou lackest." pray you
that whatever else you may miss, you may
not miss heaven. 1t is too bright home to
lose. Your soul has been bought at too dear
price. l preach to you of the blood that
ceanseth from all sin Casting all your sins
behind you, beg of yon to start this morning
for the Kingdom. Eyes" you say, 81 will
start, but not now" William Ill made proc
lamation when there was a revolution in the
north of Scotland, that all who came and took
the oath of allegiance by the 31st of December
a prominent clan, resolved TO return with the
rest of the rebels, but had some pride
III being the very last one that should take the
oath. He postponed starting for this purpose
until two days before the expiration of tho
term. A snow storm impeded his way and
before he got up to take the oath and receive
pardon from the throne the time was up and
past While the others were set free Maclan
was miserably put to DEATH He started too
late and arrived too late. In like manner,
some of you are in prospect of losing forever
the amnesty of the gospel Many of you are
going to be forever too late. Remember the
irreparable mistake of MacIanl